half note

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half note
from Fra Jacopino (1614)
by Girolamo Frescobaldi
(1583-1643)
A. half note
B. quarter note

half note

n. Music
A note having one half the value of a whole note.
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half′ note`


n.
a musical note equivalent in time value to half a whole note.
[1590–1600]
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Noun1.half note - a musical note having the time value of half a whole notehalf note - a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
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While the melodic design of these selections is well characterized, the texture seems thin and harmonization in the left hand is often a simple half note. The fingering suggestions are helpful, but again, the span of the notation and mixed rhythms are probably not suitable for a beginner.
"Anything could happen" is a half note of optimism in a novel written during a "long spell of suspended judgment," but the other half note is not of suspense.
Half note Triads, up and back, start on a[flat]', comfortably loud, tongued.
41), for example, the editor replaces Couperin's dotted half-note (d (1)) following the eighth rest in the top voice (one symbol) with an "eighth note tied to a half note tied to an eighth note" (three symbols connected with ties), although a footnote at the bottom of the page does explain the original notation in the source.
In 1979 the Half Note Jazz Club was founded in Athens.
We will print another Make Money half note tomorrow and then the final one in the Sunday Mail.
The second row is tuned a half note from the main row: for example, D/C#.
Output t1 indicates the note number and the output t2 gives the note length (a real number 1 for a whole note, 0.5 for a half note, 0.25 for a quarter note or 0.125 for an eighth note).
Student may choose a whole note root chord per measure, a half note root chord and half note first inversion, or half note first inversion chord and half note second inversion chord.
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